Testing tools for Mac?

[cgallery]

I'd love a utility similar to MHDD or HDDSCAN that I could run on a Mac without having to remove the drive. Anyone know of anything?

The Intel-based Macs don't have a conventional BIOS, so once I load MHDD up I cannot type anything on the keyboard. So if anyone knows of a utility that I can run on a Mac before MHDD so I can enable a keyboard, that would be great.

Any tips would be great.

[Cris]

I'm not sure how functional it would be, but what about trying "Target Disk Mode" on the Mac, and scanning the hard drive from another computer over FireWire / Thunderbolt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Disk_Mode

[jono-ats]

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